Photography Techniques – Lightroom Presets

May 20, 2010 | Fashion Photography, Photography, Photography Tutorial, Retouching

For those of you who don’t already know I love Adobe lightroom, the reason I love Lightroom is that like so many photographers I started off in the dark room.

Truth be told I’m too young for me to have ever really needed to do more than just develop my films and scan them. But my first introduction was a darkroom my Dad and I made when I was still at primary school, I would have been 8. By that time Photoshop was already alive and kicking.

From then till a few years ago it was a place I used to go to be alone. But It could take a day to create a perfect print.

Lightroom is the first true digital darkroom I’ve used. It’s sad thats it has relegated my enlarger to the loft, but as a pro I simply don’t have time to spend a day on one image. In Lightroom I can have an image catalogued and ready to retouch in 5 minutes. Where photographers used to use certain film stocks developed a certain way to attain a style, now we can do it at the click of a button (almost).

This is a post about just that, if you have Lightroom you may well have played with this already, if you haven’t then this post is for you.

If you don’t already have Lightroom, you can download a 30 day free trial from Adobe, or from the link below

http://www.photoshopsupport.com/lightroom/free-trial.html

Lightroom, has this little thing called a presets menu. Go into Lightroom, select an image, click develop in the menu on the top right. Go to the menu on the left, and drill down Lightroom presets. If you have not done much with this before it will come up with the basic lightroom presets.